Always was Morocco. And recently the country's leadership seems to have embraced it in all its ill-reputed glory. The days of predatory poets in sear….

I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arb….

Don't touch my d**k, don't touch my knife..

There are people with otherwise chaotic and disorganized lives, a certain type of person that's always found a home in the restaurant business in muc….

People are generally proud of their food. A willingness to eat and drink with people without fear and prejudice... they open up to you in ways that s….

PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die ever an….

In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. ... With the best restaur….

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take..

Maybe that’s enlightenment enough: to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom...is realizing….

Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer..

Good food does lead to sex. As it should. And in a perfect world, good music does too..

There are chefs who are spectacular technicians, and often their food is worth eating once or twice, but if there's no heart in it, if there's no per….

An ounce of sauce covers a multitude of sins..

My French definitely improves the more I drink, as I worry less and less about absolutely perfect grammar. I do speak and understand the language, ju….

I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'….

I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something deli….

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so perso….

I, a product of the New Frontier and Great Society, honestly believed that the world pretty much owed me a living--all I had to do was wait around in….

I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to..

I think it's a universal truth that most chefs I know are happiest eating simple, unadorned good things..

These pharmaceutical company executives are dope dealers and they should be treated worse, and more roughly than dope dealers. When you're talking ab….